| “ | Where's lover boy? Oh, I see. You were gonna help him, right? Well, that's sweet. You know, it's too bad you couldn't help your little friend. That little girl. What was her name again? Rue? Yeah, well, we killed her. And now we're gonna kill you. | „ |
| ~ Clove to Katniss moments before her well deserved death when killed by Thresh |
Clove is the secondary antagonist of The Hunger Games, the first installment in The Hunger Games trilogy and its film adaptation of the same name. She is a fifteen-year-old tribute from District 2, along with her district partner Cato.
She was portrayed by Isabelle Fuhrman, who also played Esther Coleman in the Orphan duology and Shoko in Adventure Time.
Description[]
Clove is the youngest and smallest of all Career tributes, but seems to be the most intelligent due to her methods. She has dark hair in ponytail or braids and is very arrogant, sadistic and strong. Her favorite weapon is knives, and she is known to never miss her target. Like Cato, Clove enjoys what she does as a Career Tribute and deeply hates Katniss due her high score from training.
Biography[]
Clove comes from District 2 and has been training for her entire life to win the Hunger Games. During the opening ceremonies, she and Cato wear gold Roman themed armor, representing their district industry, military.
During the training, Clove flaunts all the time and shows her perfectly deadly skills with throwing knives. She soon joins other Career Tributes - Cato, Marvel and Glimmer - and spends much time with them, laughing at other tributes when they show weakness. At the end of training, she receives a training score of 10. However, Katniss ends up surpassing her with a training score of 11. This causes the start of Clove's deep hatred of Katniss.
In the arena, she allies with the other Careers to kill the rest of the tributes. In the Cornucopia bloodbath, she grabs several throwing knives and throws one of them into the District 9 male's back. When she sees Katniss running, Clove attempts to target her head, but Katniss manages to shield herself with her backpack and escape. Clove then kills the District 10 female and hits the District 7 female to the ground, allowing Marvel to finish her.
Later, Clove and the other Careers are joined by Peeta and the District 3 male and, in the book, the District 4 female as well. Together, they walk through the arena, killing other tributes. They chase Katniss up a tree and decide to wait under it until she comes down. However, she throws down a nest of tracker jackers, forcing them to flee.
Katniss and Rue then form an alliance and plan to destroy the supplies that the Careers have at the Cornucopia. Rue successfully lures them away and Katniss manages to blow all of the supplies up. When Cato discovers it, he gets angry and kills one of his allies, the District 3 male, while Clove tries to calm him down.
Cato and Clove show up again at the Feast. They make a plan, which involves Clove going in for their District 2 backpack with Cato covering her. However, when Clove sees Katniss going for her backpack, she can't resist and throws a knife at her, slicing Katniss above the eye. Katniss attempts to fire an arrow at her, but misses, and Clove jumps on her, pinning her down. Clove happily taunts Katniss about Peeta's and Rue's death and then promises to give her a slow, painful death. Suddenly, they are interrupted by Thresh, who grabs Clove violently, as he heard her lying about how she and Cato had killed Rue. Clove starts shouting for Cato, but is killed by Thresh who hits her in the head with a rock. In the film, he slams her against the Cornucopia many times, killing her.
Gamemakers later use Clove's eyes for one of their Wolf Mutts (only in the book).
Known victims[]
- District 9 male - stabbed with a knife (Cornucopia bloodbath)
- District 10 female- stabbed with knife (Cornucopia bloodbath)
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- She is the only Career who isn't killed by Katniss in the 74th Hunger Games.
- She is the only tribute who almost kills Katniss twice (at the Cornucopia bloodbath and Feast). She also survives all Katniss' attempts to kill her.
- In the book, Clove seems to be Cato's friend or even girlfriend, as she shouts his name before Thresh kills her. While Cato is running to her dying, he begs Clove to stay with him and his voice sounds pained. Clove's death is also the reason why Cato then kills Thresh. However, in the film, Cato seems to have romantic attachment to Glimmer instead.
- Linda Flowers, Fuhrman's hair stylist, decided to make Clove look like a typical bad girl in Japanese action movies who always have high ponytail. Therefore, while she is in the arena, Clove has a long ponytail which looks like balls coming down her head.
External links[]
- Clove on the The Hunger Games Wiki.
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